NOMINATION
of UNESCO Interfaculty Chair on ICT in Library Studies, Education and Cultural Heritage,at the State University of Library Studies, Education and Cultural Heritage, Sofia, Bulgaria,for the 2015 edition of the UNESCO King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for ICT in EducationTheme: Pedagogical Innovation in the Use of ICT in Teaching and Learning

A Perspective on the Outcomes of the Regional Roundtables at the 17 October 2015 High-Level Policy Forum in Pretoria, South Africa
Participants: Prof. Roumen Nikolov, PhD; Hristo Tutunarov, PhD
Higher Education for the Sustainable Future We Want. The Way Ahead for Online, Open and Flexible Learning: Opportunities and Actions

Under the theme TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED QUALITY LEARNING FOR ALL the main goal of EDUsummIT 2015 was to define joint strategies at national, regional and international levels to address successfully the challenges educational systems face in a digital and networked world.
Participants: assoc. prof. Eugenia Kovatcheva and assoc. prof. Tereza Tencheva presented our university.

As of 1 January 2011, there are 418 international students at the FU, including 368 undergraduates, 23 candidates for a master’s degree, 13 post-graduate (PhD) students, and 13 exchange students at 12 faculties. The first- and second-year students study on programmes leading to a bachelor’s degree and the others on five-year specialist programmes.

On January 23-24, 2014 the Meeting of UNESCO Chairs on higher education, ICT in education and teachers took place in the UNESCO HQ, Paris. The main goal of this event organized by Education Sector was to seekeffective ways to engage UNESCO Chairs and UNITWIN Networks on how they can contribute more actively towards UNESCO achieving its expected programmatic results in the areas of higher education, ICT in education and teachers.